50 years ago today: Paul McCartney and Wings rocked Seattle’s brand-new Kingdome

Fifty years ago today, a skinny 15-year-old squeezed onto the floor of Seattle’s brand-new Kingdome to see Paul McCartney and Wings and watched rock history made in the process.

The June 10, 1976 concert was the first rock show ever staged at the Kingdome, drawing 67,000 fans to the freshly opened domed stadium. It also marked McCartney’s first Seattle appearance since The Beatles’ final tour in 1966.

Among the crowd that night was KIRO Newsradio’s Corwin Haeck, who had just finished his sophomore year at Sammamish High School in Bellevue…

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